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The iPhone is heaven for mobile developers, hell for everyone else. If you're coming from a web software background -- or even a desktop software background --
by jfarmer 17y ago
The iPhone is heaven for mobile developers, hell for everyone else.
If you're coming from a web software background -- or even a desktop software background -- the App store will increase the length your development cycle by one or two orders of magnitude.
The iPhone brought new developers to the mobile field and they have higher expectations than people who have been working with carriers for the last five years.
In the long run, developers will go where the expected payout is the highest. For now that's the iPhone, but the App Store is a big weakness.
- petercooper 17y agoIf you're coming from a web software background -- or even a desktop software background -- the App store will increase the length your development cycle by one or two orders of magnitude. Only if you need to develop a native app. You can develop highly functional Web apps specifically for the iPhone that work through Safari. Hardly ideal, of course, in terms of not being in the catalog everyone's looking at.. but totally doable. Apple even keeps a directory of them: http://www.apple.com/webapps/ http://www.apple.com/webapps/